Sanders is officially an independent, which creates a political card that insists he isn’t a Democrat or Republican. In reality, he is a controlled opposition for the ruling class of the United States, sheepdogging millions of voters to eventually accept the Democratic Party as the alleged opposition to the Republicans.
His recent tour with so-called “Squad” member Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, as well as his recent statements regarding the ongoing genocide in Gaza, makes it perfectly clear what his orientation as a so-called progressive really is: preserving imperialism and its allies.
Since October 7, 2023—and ramping up in the previous weeks since Trump’s reelection—Sanders has been rehabilitating the image of the Israeli occupation by attributing its genocidal war crimes and crimes against humanity solely to Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu.
Sanders insists that Netanyahu’s “right-wing government” is responsible for the genocide, while stopping short of naming the Israeli occupation itself as the main culprit.
In speeches and online statements, Sanders never condemns the occupation and apartheid—and only mentions Netanyahu. Time and time again, he has refrained from commenting on decades of Israeli war crimes against Palestinians both in the Gaza Strip and occupied West Bank and only raises Netanyahu as a talking point.
Author should look up what the word "condemn" means. They don't seem to know. I love Bernie just as much as the next guy, but if you don't condemn Israel, then you don't condemn genocide. Period.
I, personally, don't care at all for the politics of another region. I just plain don't care. If they want to kill each other until no one is left, then that's their own prerogative and I don't care. But that's not what's happening. Israel is systematically expunging an entire group of people from the face of the earth, a group of people who don't have the means to protect themselves. That's genocide, and there is only one valid moral stance when it comes to that, and it's to be against it. If you're not against it, you're complicit in it. Period. There's no moral wiggle room when it comes to genocide.
The Jews of that region are totally fucking insane. In many ways far more insane than even the Germans during WWII. Unlike with Germans, Israel believes that the extermination of Palestinians is ordained by God and not just a national point of pride, and that's why they won't stop. It's like they all huffed too much Glue and now they're all just fucking crazy.
It's interesting because they think all Palestinians are terrorists and like most developed nations, they created their own terrorists. They pushed this group of people to the breaking point to where their only outlet for resistance was terrorism. It's such an obvious parallel with the US and the middle-east. It's crazy.
But whatever. Bernie doesn't score any brownie points with anyone for his stance on Israel. If anything, it hurts him significantly. It's going to stop a lot of people supporting him than he would otherwise have.
There is one single Zionist at a Bernie rally and it's Bernie.
don't forget about aoc; she's on board with it too.
The fairweather princess has abandoned all hope of Liberal Zionism after getting utterly demolished by her fanbase for it.
Best she can do now is call it a genocide and hope she'll get people to vote for a libzio in 2028.
Honestly feels like a strategy to piss off everyone. People won't think your on their side if you are ambiguous, it just doesn't work like that.